Are you trying to play God?

Most of us, if we're honest, try to play God.  We think that we can make things happen; turn a situation around, but we do a terrible job at it.


God saw the wickedness of man in the Garden of Eden, and we see how that ended up.  Over and over again there are biblical examples of God's judgment of man's vain attempts to replace Him.


It's a scary thought to be in the hands of an almighty God.  How often we growing Christians follow a pattern of "I can fix this; I will make them do what I ask..."  

There are principles that we must follow to maintain and covet a close relationship with God.  If we follow these principles that He's laid out for us in the Bible, we too will have victory in the spiritual battles and struggles of Christian living.


Don't try to live this life on your own will; it will lead to death.  Instead, choose life; a life with God; the One who sent His only Son to die for us.  


This isn't a game we're playing.  If we think that merely mouthing the Lord's Prayer or routinely taking communion or carrying a Bible to Church on Sunday will somehow please God, then we are guilty of playing the game of pacifying God.  God is neither appeased nor pleased with religious tokenism.


Be yourself in Christ.


2 Timothy 4:3-4 - "For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths."